Telkom mistook dominance for permanence and lost to mobile; the mobile operators now face the same test.
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The regulator says it cannot issue new network licences for now, pointing operators towards buying existing ones.
Stakeholders have until 21 August to weigh in before parliament decides the sector’s regulatory future.
South Africa’s next mobile growth story will come from connecting machines, not people, writes Pambos Soteriades.
South African mobile users spend far less time on 5G than their counterparts in markets like India, a new analysis shows.
Broadcasters have been invited to nominate the engineers who will help shape digital radio in South Africa.
Icasa freed up new Wi-Fi spectrum years ago, but ageing routers and handsets are throttling South Africa’s Wi-Fi upgrade.
The Wi-Fi 8 standard trades the gigabit race for reliability – and Icasa’s new spectrum rules make it matter locally.
A significant set of final regulations from Icasa has opened 900MHz of spectrum to Wi-Fi and private 5G operators.
Government must lean more on the private sector in a fiscally constrained environment, communications minister Solly Malatsi has said.